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Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
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Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
#12In times of uncertainty I always count on worst.
If chances of this true are 10% and this is indeed true, giving it some attention is worth it.
Edit: by attention I mean somebody from Google who can check things up
Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
#13If true, what would the debate within Google be like about closing Google services / blacklisting accounts or devices, over the affected regions?
For such a thing they probably have to get approval from the state department or someone else correct?
Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
#14Why would Russia mark airstrikes with some kind of obfuscated Google Maps entries? I hope your hometown stays safe, but I can't see how this makes sense.
Any agent/soldier can access it without a complicated permission or authorization structure. You don't need access to some spy satellite. All you need is a mobile phone, tablet or laptop. It would seem very effective to me.
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#16I don’t know if this is true. But to everyone dismissing the idea that a military would ever use Google Maps to co-ordinate, you may have missed some news stories about what a shitshow the first few days of the Russian invasion has been. Major breakdown of their digital systems and lots of improvisation.
Same, I don't know if it's true that they are marks for Russian air strikes. But I've just tried and it does look weird (farms in the middle of the city).
Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
#17If true, what would the debate within Google be like about closing Google services / blacklisting accounts or devices, over the affected regions? For such a thing they probably have to get approval from the state department or someone else correct?
>For such a thing they probably have to get approval from the state department
Google doesn't have to get approval from the state department to discontinue services.
Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
#18It feels very improbable that a government would be using google maps for this. It feels even more improbable that even if they are, removing a mark from google maps would prevent them from launching an actual air strike. Surely a target important enough to "mark" would be worth finding an alternative way to target in case a bunch of keyboard warriors figure out your nefarious plan. None of this makes sense. I know i…
There was a youtube channel with Ukrainian’s forces movement. I wish I could easily find it but don’t believe it’s still up.
It looked Something like this:
“MORNING IN KHARKIV 25/02”
Footage of armed vehicles moving on the city streets
1.2 million views
Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
#19> “Out of an abundance of caution, we are removing user contributions like photos, videos, reviews and business information and all user-submitted places from Google Maps in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus since the invasion began, and are temporarily blocking new edits from being made,” a Google spokesperson said. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahemerson/russia-goo...
It still works, I've just tried.
Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
#20> “Out of an abundance of caution, we are removing user contributions like photos, videos, reviews and business information and all user-submitted places from Google Maps in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus since the invasion began, and are temporarily blocking new edits from being made,” a Google spokesperson said. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahemerson/russia-goo...
My mom mentioned this. They may be bypassing the ban.